By Lamin Cham The Daily Observer, the legendary name in Gambian newspaper industry, which began publication in May 1992, has been shut down on the orders of the Gambia Revenue Authority, GRA, reliable sources told The Standard yesterday. According to our sources, the GRA officials moved in to lock up […]
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Cabinet Identifies Priority Sectors
President Adama Barrow last night presided over the third Cabinet meeting at Fajara. Unlike the previous government, the current administration has been keeping the public abreast with what has been discussed and agreed. In the last meeting, ministers, among others, laid emphasis on the need to effectively communicate with people […]
My Take On Halifa’s Kanilai Position
The disenchanted Hon. Halifa Sallah has now become a populist and a puppet politician who is hell bent on soliciting for the allegiance of the Jola people, APRC supporters, and sympathizers following the recent unfortunate event that took place in Kanilai. As a mind reader, Halifa is praying for more incidents […]
Is Kanilai Not Part Of Gambia?
Where are the Members of our National Assembly??… Dear Mr Editor, Please allow me space in your newspaper once again to express my humble opinion and add my voice to the lots of voices of patriotic Gambians on issues surrounding Foni and its people, especially Kanilai. Perhaps, it is worth […]
Re: Some Facts About Lawyer Badjie
I think that calling Mr. Badgie’s character into question, primarily as retribution for his revelations, lacks political maturity. Who financed his studies, how he got into the agency, what he did prior to his appointment as the agency’s lawyer etc is not relevant. Relevant is what he wrote in his […]
Kanilai Crisis: Halifa Faults ECOWAS
The National Assembly Member for Serekunda has faulted negotiators from the ECOWAS, African Union and the United Nations for their failure “to proceed to sign a document with President Barrow to get him to also Commit himself to the declaration of intent of the negotiators.” At a press conference on Saturday, […]
Bubacarr Badjie of NIA Must Be Released
The National Intelligence Agency (NIA) has bigger issues to address than continue the inconsequential pretence of calling itself the State Intelligence Service. As a security agency, the NIA is synonymous with utter lawlessness in the manner it conducted itself in the past. It was even performing the function of debt […]
Revisiting Jammeh’s Verbatim Tribal Slur
Transcript of Yahya Jammeh’s speech about Mandinka (Mandinka-English translation notwithstanding, we tried very hard to write as spoken.) Paragraphs are marked by time into the speech. 0:0 – Since 1994, all the trouble makers or those organizing demonstrations are Mandinka. Any Mandinka who follows their foot-step, Bilahi Walahi Talahi, I […]
Gambia National Army May Not Be Loyal – Watch Out President Adama Barrow
By Emmanuel Joof (Paps) The security of the country needs to be addressed seriously especially given the recent incidents in the Fonis. Unfortunately, we have an army that has been “tribalized” over a period of 22 years and comprising of MFDC rebels from Jammeh’s tribe (fighting for independence from Senegal) […]
National Assembly Should Enact Public Officers’ Declaration of Assets
National Assembly should enact Public Officers’ Declaration of Assets, Liabilities and Business Interests, and the Anti-Corruption Commission law. Alagi Yorro Jallow The Gambia needs a new caliber of leadership at all levels. What the nation needs is competent and honest politicians, those who operate with integrity and who are not simply […]
Foni Must Not Be Marginalised
Well, if the demo was planned and publicised on social media, then serious questions about competence need to be asked. Many will agree that the demonstrators have not given any legitimate reasons for taking to the streets, if as reported, their grievance was against the stationing of ECOMIG troops in […]
Arguable Causes of the Kanilai Protest
By Captain Ebrima Cambi A simple security analysis coupled with a bit of impeccable intelligence from the period of the political impasse to the day of the protest, shows that the protest was not intent on getting rid of the soldiers as the primary motive but a catalyst to an […]